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1 online resource (xiv, 218 pages) |
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Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Heumann co-founded the World Institute on Disability with Ed Roberts and Joan Leon in 1983, serving as co-director until 1993. Assistant Secretary of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services at the US Department of Education. served as the World Bank Group's first Advisor on Disability and Development. Director of the Department of Disability Services for the District of Columbia. Special Advisor on Disability Rights for the US State Department. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Part one. Brooklyn, New York, 1953 -- The Butterfly -- Insubordinate -- To Fight or Not to Fight -- Fear of Flying -- Part two. Berkeley, California, 1977 -- Detained -- Occupation Army -- Soldiers in Combat -- The White House -- Part three. Berkeley, California, 1981 -- The Reckoning -- Chingona -- Humans -- Our Story. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 05, 2020). |
| Summary |
Being Heumann Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy's struggle for equality began early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a "fire hazard" to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher's license because of her paralysis, Judy's actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people. As a young woman, Judy rolled her wheelchair through the doors of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in San Francisco as a leader of the Section 504 Sit-In, the longest takeover of a governmental building in US history. Working with a community of over 150 disabled activists and allies, Judy successfully pressured the Carter administration to implement protections for disabled peoples' rights, sparking a national movement and leading to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Judy Heumann's memoir about resistance to exclusion invites readers to imagine and make real a world in which we all belong. |
| Subject |
Heumann, Judith E.
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Human rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
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People with disabilities -- United States -- Biography.
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Teachers -- United States -- Biography.
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Human rights workers. (OCoLC)fst00963353
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People with disabilities. (OCoLC)fst01057245
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Teachers. (OCoLC)fst01144248
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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| Added Author |
Joiner, Kristen; author.
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Beacon Press.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Heumann, Judith E.. Being Heumann Boston : Beacon Press, [2019] 9780807019290 (DLC) 2019026271 |
| ISBN |
9780807019382 electronic book |
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0807019380 electronic book |
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9780807019290 hardcover acid-free paper |
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